Down on her luck and saddled with debt, Emily (Aubrey Plaza) takes a shady gig buying goods with stolen credit cards supplied by a charismatic middleman named Youcef (Theo Rossi). Seduced by the quick cash and illicit thrills, they hatch a plan to take their business to the next level, ultimately leading to dangerous consequences.
The ground-shaking impact of The Comic Strip's anarchic humour rattled the televisions of 1980's Britain, and when the smoke cleared they left a gaping crater that lesser comics are still falling into today. This set includes new episodes 'The Hunt for Tony Blair', 'Five Go to Rehab' and 'Sex Actually' plus the anniversary episode '30 Years of Comic Strip' including hilarious new and previously unreleased footage, all of which are new to video.
Also Includes the Best of the Original Comic Strip Presents Films:
- Bad News Tour and More Bad News
- Five Go Mad In Dorset
- The Strike
- GLC
- Gino: Full Story and Pics
- Susie
- A Fistful of Travellers Cheques
- Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
- Spaghetti Hoops
- Red Nose of Courage
- The Bullshitters
- Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown
- Gregory
- Diary of a Nutcase
- The Crying Game
- Four Men in a Car
- Four Men in a Plane
Alan Bennett is one of Britain's most popular and prolific authors and playwrights. He initially wrote for the stage, but found that with his observant eye for the absurdities of modern life and sharp ear for dialogue, his work transferred easily and effectively to the small screen. This collection brings together many of Alan Bennett's previously unreleased BBC productions dating from 1972 through to 1994. It includes his first television play, 'A Day Out'; autobiographical pieces such as 'Dinner at Noon' and 'Portrait or Bust' and celebrated plays such as 'A Woman of No Importance', 'An Englishman Abroad' and 'A Question of Attribution'. The plays, each with a specially recorded introduction by Alan Bennett, feature a number of great British actors including Daniel Day Lewis, Alan Bates, Patricia Routledge, Janet McTeer, James Fox and Prunella Scales and number Richard Eyre, Stephen Frears and John Schlesinger among the directors.
When a top-secret weapon falls into mercenary hands, wild card CIA agent Mason "Mace" Brown (Jessica Chastain) joins forces with rival German agent Marie (Diane Kruger), former MI6 ally and cutting-edge computer specialist Khadijah (Lupita Nyong'o), and skilled Colombian psychologist Graciela (Penelope Cruz) on a lethal mission to retrieve it. The unlikely team must also stay one step ahead of a mysterious woman, Lin Mi Sheng (Bingbing Fan), who is tracking their every move as the action rockets across the globe.
Judith Wynter (Margaret Leighton) is a happily married novelist whose romantic works are eagerly devoured by scores of female readers. When Carlo (Carlo Giustini), a handsome young Italian chauffeur, arrives to work for Judith and her husband, a professor currently recovering from an attack of paralysis, he causes quite a flutter; when he then reads the manuscript of Judith's latest novel, he jumps to a rather unfortunate conclusion...and life in the Wynter household becomes very complicated indeed!
Thief Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro) and policeman Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino), both obsessed with their professions and determined to achieve big things, find themselves caught in a cat and mouse chase as McCauley sets plans in motion for one last heist before his retirement. When Hanna gets assigned to the case of the notorious thief, he dedicates himself to making McCauley's arrest the pinnacle of his career.
When the life of his childhood friend is threatened by a ruthless drug lord, ex-soldier Dean is called back into action on the streets of his hometown. After years away on tour, battle-hardened Dean finally returns home to Grimsby, only to discover a town paralysed by fear of the vicious drug dealers who have taken over. Forced to use his military skills to exact a brutal and explosive justice, Dean soon learns that to expel the town's demons, he must first tackle his own.
From award-winning writers Alan Carr and Simon Carlyle, 'Changing Ends' is a comedy based on Alan's childhood growing up as the son of a fourth division football manager in Northampton, 1980s. This is more than just a trip down memory lane. It's a love letter to a time and a town where things weren't always so inclusive. Told with warmth and wit, it follows Alan's journey through puberty, adolescence and finally self-discovery. Against the backdrop of Thatcher's Britain, Alan experiences sexual awakenings, battles with bullies and navigates the highs and lows of fourth division football. This is a show about school and family, and figuring out who you are when your family are Match of the Day football fanatics - and you're a little bit Miss Marple.
In 2013 there are no highways and no dreams of a better tomorrowonly scattered survivors across what was once the United States.Into this apocalyptic wasteland comes an enigmatic drifter with a mule, a knack for Shakespeare and something yet undiscovered: the power to inspire hope. Kevin Costner directs and plays a wayfarer in a world where might makes rightbut destined to lead a heroic rebellion where right makes might.
A masterwork of the German Silent Cinema whose reputation has only increased over time, 'Diary of a Lost Girl' traces the journey of a young woman from the pit of despair to the moment of personal awakening. Directed with virtuoso flair by the great G.W. Pabst, 'Diary of a Lost Girl' represents the final pairing of the filmmaker with screen icon Louise Brooks, mere months after their first collaboration in the now-legendary Pandora's Box. Brooks plays Thymian Henning, an unprepossessing young woman seduced by an unscrupulous and mercenary character employed at her father's pharmacy (played with gusto by Fritz Rasp, the degenerate villain of such Fritz Lang classics as Metropolis, Spione, and Frau im Mond). After Thymian gives birth to the child and subsequently rejects her family's expectations for marriage, the baby is stripped from her care, and Thymian is relegated to a purgatorial reform school that functions less as an educational institution and more like a conduit for fulfilling the headmistress's sadistic sexual fantasies.
Career con man Roy (Ian McKellen) sets his sights on his latest mark, recently widowed Betty (Helen Mirren), who's worth millions. And he means to take it all. But as the two grow closer, what should have been another simple swindle becomes a high-stakes game of cat and mouse in this suspenseful drama about the secrets people keep and the lies they live.
Writer Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire), his beautiful cousin Daisy (Carey Mulligan) and her blue-blooded husband Tom Buchanan (Joel Edgerton) fall into the seductive world of mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio) in this dazzling visual journey from Baz Luhrmann based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's timeless novel.
In this gripping suspense thriller, Liam Neeson is a man obsessed with uncovering the truth surrounding the disappearance of his wife (Laura Linney). After stumbling across clues that take him to the streets of Milan, he tracks down his wife's charismatic lover (Antonio Banderas) and is determined to exact his revenge. In a shocking twist, he discovers a labyrinth of secrets and a side to his wife that he never knew.
"Jojo Rabbit" follows a lonely German boy Jojo (Roman Griffin Davis), whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his mother Rosie (Scarlett Johansson) is hiding a Jewish girl Elsa (Thomasin McKenzie) in their attic. Aided by his wildly idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler (Taika Waititi), Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.
This is Amin's Ugandan dictator incredible story as seen through the eyes of Nicholas Garrigan (James McAvoy), a young Scotsman who becomes the volatile leader's personal physician, due in part to Amin's unexpected passion for Scottish culture - Amin even proclaims himself "The Last King of Scotland". Seduced by Amin's charisma and blinded by decadence, Garrigan's dream life becomes a waking nightmare of betrayal and madness from which there is no escape. Inspired by real people and events, this gripping, suspenseful stunner is filled with performances you will never forget.
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